Monday, January 30, 2012
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Moyale Member of Parliament Mohamud Ali has accused the regions security agencies for laxity that has resulted to the persistent clashes in the area.Muhamud says that the Northern provincial security Committee and the Moyale District Security agencies are to blame for the continued skirmishes pitting two communities in the area.
Speaking Sunday in Nairobi, Muhamud took issue for what he termed as a selective disarmament process.
He called on the government to urgently intervene and disband the regions security agencies for peace to be restored in the region.
The MP also called on the government to come up with a long term solution to insecurity in the Northern part of the country.
In the most recent attack on Thursday last week three people including a chief were killed in intertribal feuds between the Gabbra and Borana communities.
Security has since been intensified in the area.
Meanwhile, a former Isiolo North MP Mr. Charfano Mokku has condemned the tribal clashes in Moyale district.
Mr. Mokku called upon the warring Gabra and Borana communities to live like brothers and sisters as they had done before.
The former assistant Minister for water called on the government to bring the warring groups together through their elders, religious leaders and politicians to find a lasting solution to recurrent skirmishes since late last year.
He appealed on the two communities to stop fighting saying bloodshed was not the solution to their differences.
He urged them to apply dialogue to seek a permanent end to the pastoralist communities' fighting in the Marsabit County which he added could be pointing to politics ahead of impending general election and lack of harmonized utilization of resources.
Mr. Mokku also asked the government to move in with speed and impartially control the security problem in the area where the two groups of pastoralists are out to decimate one another other.
He observed that the rival ethnic groups ought to immediately build peace and iron out their differences later.
"The area residents can do a lot of beneficial activities that would alleviate their poverty levels and achieve immense development but only when there is sustainable peace," the Isiolo North veteran politician said.
An assistant chief for Funanyatta sub location, in Moyale district was last Thursday shot dead during fire exchange between the Borana and Gabra tribesmen the height of the last two months attacks and counter attacks.
Moyale DC Elias Kithaura confirmed killing of the chief and four others in feud between the two tribes adding that the security situation was now under control.